Research Says Twitter S Timeline Algorithm Boosts The Political Right
This is part of Twitter’s announcement in April to study algorithmic fairness and to ascertain whether they cause “unintentional harms.” The company said at the time that it would study the political leanings of the platform’s content recommendations. These new findings detail that its algorithms are somewhat in favor of the right. In this research, Twitter focused on two key aspects. First to determine if the algorithmic timeline helped further political content from elected officials, and secondly to know if some political groups received a greater boost for their content....